Fitz has Gator Bowl plan set for Wildcats

Pat Fitzgerald has a plan for
how to prepare his team for its Gator Bowl matchup against Mississippi State on
New Year's Day, and it's not the same one he has used in the past.

"We'll go basically three
practices a week, Thursday, Saturday, Sunday," Fitzgerald said after Saturday's
workout inside the team's practice facility, which was watched by recruits,
their parents and several local high school coaches. "Thursdays are just the
young guys. We've done that two Thursdays in a row. Saturdays and Sundays are a
mix of developmental work with the young guys and game-plan work now that we know
who we're playing and all that."

After finals, preparations will
begin in earnest. Fitzgerald and his staff will have a typical game week on
campus before players are allowed to go home for Christmas on the 20th.
The team will reconvene for a flight to Jacksonville, Fla., on the 26th,
where another game week of preparation will begin.

"We'll go through our typical game
week after having already gone through the game plan one time," Fitzgerald said.
"We've got a pretty specific plan on how we're going to do things. We'll get
about eight practices for the young guys, exclusively, and will use it as
pre-spring ball, and then, obviously, do everything we can to have a great game
plan, have the bugs ironed out, have the guys understand what we're doing to
play fast and be ready for Jan. 1 and peak at the right time."